The Dynamic Maps API has the following key features:
- Provides easy integration with any platform that adheres to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.
- Generates map images dynamically based on user-specified parameters such as layers, coordinate systems and bounding boxes.
- Enables users to request custom map representations, allowing them to request specific layers of spatial data
- Supports a returning feature information in a variety of output formats such as text/xml, GML and application/json.